It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history.

A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit.

Criss Jami

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.

Charlton Heston

I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

I wasn't ready for fame and all that brings to your life. It was an amazing experience, but so overwhelming, because no one can tell you beforehand when it will happen or how it will impact you. So no one can tell you how to handle it, being stopped everywhere you go because people saw you on 'Oprah.' It took me over, and I wasn't ready.

Iyanla Vanzant

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

George Bernard Shaw

When you wake up from a dream you have only a few precious moments before the details of the dream begin to dissipate and the memory fades.Not all dreams are significant or worth remembering.But the ones that are . . . happen again.So, wait for the dream to return. And never be afraid. Instead, consider it an opportunity to learn something profound and possibly wondrous about yourself.

Vera Nazarian

There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.

Marguerite Moreau

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Earl Wilson

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal, My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence

Thomas Wolfe

I have seen enough, too, to know that it is not always the youngest and best who are spared to those that love them; but this should give us comfort rather than sorrow, for Heaven is just, and such things teach us impressively that there is a far brighter world than this, and that the passage to it is speedy.

Charles Dickens

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort